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Jul 5th, 2012, 18:20 | #31 |
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Good idea, I'll dig out some cable ties! Thanks!
Got rid of the "Engine System Service Required" warning recently with a 20p 2mm nut and bolt instead of the £700 that the dealer wanted to replace the whole swirl arm assembly! Pics when I get five minutes |
Jul 26th, 2012, 13:19 | #32 |
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id be interested in hearing this ..
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Jul 26th, 2012, 21:45 | #33 |
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I'll get some pictures of the money pit's engine bay and post them up tomorrow for you, in the meantime, grab a 2mm nut and bolt, and file down the bolt to approx 20mm
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Nov 13th, 2012, 06:27 | #34 |
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If you have locking wheel nuts ('bolts' to be totally accurate!!) get rid of them before one shears off and leaves you in a total mess.
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Mar 10th, 2013, 19:34 | #35 |
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Couldn't agree more!
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I had a flat tyre at work and the security guys helpfully tried to change it for me, except one of the locking nuts sheared off. They could do nothing so I phoned the breakdown rescue people, who also could do nothing except take the car to the local dealer. Of course by then they were closed. The next day they fixed the wheel and asked me if I wanted to replace the locking nuts with ordinary ones - needless to say I said "Yes!" |
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Apr 27th, 2013, 18:11 | #37 |
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find your doors dont quite run flush with the rest of the car?...
door hinges; youll see 3 line marking on them. and dots on the actual pillar. you have to lign the middle line to the dots. loosen the torq 40 bolts a lil (do not remove these bolts) an retighten when correct |
May 18th, 2013, 07:58 | #38 |
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front wheel knock
As title, if you hear a knocking noise coming from the front wheels it could be the centre bolts behind the dust cap that have come loose. Tightening them up again will work for a while.
To make a permanent fix buy the XC90 bolts with a rubber cone on them and they won't come loose again. HTH |
Jul 4th, 2013, 14:53 | #39 |
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Loss of power on D5 when accelerating hard but fine normally
Upon accelerating hard in D5 (mine is a 2003 V70), you find that the car's power suddenly stops pulling around 2-3000 rpm, with the car very reluctant to climb above that (mine was accompanied by the sound of someone trying to such an orange through a hosepipe!). However, when accelerating gently, the car pulls cleanly all the way to the red line. The collapse was accompanied by the "Engine Service Required" warning which cleared upon an engine restart.
The problem was not the intercooler, turbo or anything other expensive - it was the turbo inlet pipe. It had gone soft with age and had split; when accelerating hard the pipe was collapsing, starving the turbo of air. Accelerating gently meant the pressure was never enough to collapse the pipe. The pipe is only about £50 and a relatively easy fix - on my car, I could actually see the split before asking my local garage to swap it whilst in for a service (they only charged me for 30 minutes labour to do the job as they were doing the cambelt at the same time) - and that's my Volvo main dealer (Johnson's of Swindon). I've written up the location on the attachment as the pipe is a little awkward to find but easy once you know where it is. I'd guess you could easily do this yourself (I was being lazy as the car was going in anyway). Hope this helps! |
Jul 5th, 2013, 08:23 | #40 |
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Cheers for this info, sounds exactly what im experiencing
Is this the offending part??? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRESH-AIR-...81013387995%26 |
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